[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#421946: Bug#421946: openldap2.3: build against newer Berkeley DB

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> Is performance the only problem with 4.4 and 4.5 for OpenLDAP?  If so, I
> think the BDB maintainers would be well within their rights to ask for
> removal of 4.2 from unstable anyway, even if 4.6 weren't on the horizon.

Note that going with a slower BDB probably isn't an acceptable solution
for Stanford, which means that if Debian goes this direction, I'll have to
keep maintaining a local fork of the packages, which means that I won't be
testing the Debian packages in a production environment.

Currently I have to do this anyway for other reasons, but I'm trying to
reduce the divergence as much as I can, and currently once 2.4 is released
there's no reason why I can't run the Debian packages directly.  But going
to a slower BDB is probably a non-option for us.

This is *not* necessarily a good reason for Debian to make decisions; it's
more feedback from someone who wants to use the Debian packages that this
could be a deal-breaker in our willingness to use the packages in Debian
verbatim.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>